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Get the taste of your favourite chocolate bar without any added sugar in this Almond Joy Nut Butter! Perfect for spreading on toast, oatmeal or your favorite smoothie!

It’s official, I have eaten chocolate with breakfast for 9 days in a row. I’m also very much back on the oatmeal train, cycling through my mocha overnight oats, cookie dough oats and almond joy oats like it’s my job. I wish it were my job…

The third one is responsible for the stroke of genius that is this almond butter. Almond butter is far superior to all its butter cousins when it comes to mixing into oats. I know this for a fact.

almond joy butterI’m fairly certain I ate oats with my Almond Coconut Butter for a year straight before deciding that other breakfast options might be acceptable. I was so obsessed that this almond butter was the first recipe I ever posted on the blog. It’s kind of a shame though that I did since I literally cringe when I look at the pictures. They do not do justice to the deliciousness that is this recipe. BTW, I’ve decided that subbing out the cashews makes no difference so I just don’t use them anymore.

almond joy butter 2But these days it’s been all about chocolate + almond butter. Typically I’ve been mixing almond butter and chocolate chips into my oats each morning, but thanks to an excessive amount of food and a limited amount of shelf space, I have to take out a stool and use some impressive acrobatic skills to get to the chocolate chips.

A normal person would just find a more accessible place for the chocolate chips, but I think we have established by now that I am not normal. So instead I nipped it in the bud and just threw some cocoa powder into some almond butter…with coconut. I swear the time I save from reaching, climbing, pouring and stirring those chocolate chips into my oats has been life changing. I consider this Almond Joy Butter the ultimate life hack.

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Almond Joy Butter

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  • Author: The Healthy Maven
  • Prep Time: 11 mins
  • Cook Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 21 mins
  • Yield: 1 1/2 cups 1x

Ingredients

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  • 2 cups almonds
  • 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Spread out almonds on a baking sheet and bake for 11 mins (watch closely so they don’t burn).
  3. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly.
  4. Add almonds and coconut to a food processor and begin processing, scraping the sides down as needed.
  5. Once almonds become creamy, add in cocoa powder, vanilla and sea salt.
  6. Continue processing until mixture becomes smooth and creamy. Total process can take anywhere from 5-10 mins depending on your food processor.
  7. Store in a sealable jar in the cupboard for up to 1 month or longer in the fridge

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Hi! I'm Davida and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm a wellness blogger, yoga teacher, certified herbalist, and green beauty lover.

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93 Comments

  1. I am obsessed with this! I need to make this ASAP. I love almond butter and I love coconut. Plus, I’m running low on my supply (meaning I only have two jars and 3 packets left).

  2. My chocolate consumption is ridiculous at the moment. At least I decreased the nutbutter consumption!! I made a similar version a few month ago and murdered my Food Processor with it. At least I could get away with some jars of homemade cacao coconut butter before it died. That is like crack.
    But now that you posted this deliciousness, I want to take a spoon and dig around on my PC screen. Or lick it. Ok, I stop now. Genius, that’s all.

    1. I live in fear of the day when my food processor breaks. I may as well just keel over and die because life means nothing without my beloved toy…

  3. This looks super easy to make! Never knew that if you put coconut in the food processor that it turns into a butter! Crazy! haha love that you cook the almonds for 11 minutes, not 10 😉 Maybe i’m weird and have a thing for even numbers. DEFINITELY making this one! Thanks for the fabulous recipe girl!

    1. I know haha. I’ve actually made the plain almond butter a ton of times and have played with the recipe enough to know that the almonds are perfect at 11 minutes. Super random but I swear it’s true!

  4. I had your mocha overnight oats 3 times last week, so good! I topped it with peanut butter but now I really want to make this to top it with 🙂

    1. That makes me so happy!!! They’re delicious with PB too 🙂 But why not double the chocolate right?!

  5. I have yet to make my own nut butter. I don’t think my blender would be up for the task. I need a better blender, so could try it because this certainly looks amazing!

  6. YUUUUUM. I used to not like almond joys at all, which is insane but I hated coconut. And look at me now! I’m a freaking coconut freak. So obviously, when I come to visit, you best have some of this on hand. I need it from the original source.

  7. I’m always for chocolate any time of the day 😀 Beautiful photos! I want some of the almond butter! It looks delicious!